Re: Eliding quotes in envelope? (Re: New spammer exploit ...)

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 09:43:14PM +0000,
> 
> There may be some point of argument if the quoted portion can be accurately
> transcribed as an an RFC822 atom, in which case an argument can be made
> that quotes can be stripped.  However, stripping quotes unilaterally is a
> completely broken behavior.

I disagree. It is pretty clear that semanticly the quotes are not part
of the local address. This allows you to put characters in the local
part of the address that would conflict with other things allowed by
rfc 821, such as routing information and the like.

SMTP servers that treat "local"@example.com and [EMAIL PROTECTED] as
different are broken.